{"id":1856,"date":"2020-03-31T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:57:21","slug":"reading-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/reading-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Prepare the Brain for Reading by Previewing First<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Preview the book before reading: When we preview information (or in this case, the book), we are prepping the brain for the bigger picture of what is going to be read.\u00a0 Teach your children the following steps for preparing their brains to read any book (this is a life-long skill that many adults do naturally): <br><strong>Book Walk:\u00a0<\/strong>Flip through the pages of the book to look at the pictures, chapters titles, captions, summaries, subheadings, etc.\u00a0 These &#8220;walks&#8221; through a text prime the brain and promote the big picture in a reader&#8217;s mind.<br><strong>Personal Connections:\u00a0<\/strong>Ask questions like, \u201cWhat do you already know about this topic, author, or ideas within the book?\u00a0 What do you think the book\/chapter will be about?\u00a0 What do you think you might learn about this topic?\u201d<br><strong>Vocabulary:\u00a0<\/strong>Define a few, challenging vocabulary words that you notice during the Book Walk.\u00a0 Learning critical words before reading (or even during reading) drastically improves comprehension.\u00a0 Quick tools for definitions:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dictionary.com<\/a>;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/vocabulary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">vocabulary.com<\/a>;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/ninjawords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ninjawords.com<\/a>.<br>Reference: <br>Nickelsen,\u00a0L. (n.d.). Professional Development &#8211; Transformational Training &amp; Coaching.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maximizelearninginc.com\/\">https:\/\/maximizelearninginc.com\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepare the Brain for Reading by Previewing First Preview the book before reading: When we preview information (or in this case, the book), we are prepping the brain for the bigger picture of what is going to be read.\u00a0 Teach your children the following steps for preparing their brains to read any book (this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rocketsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}